Linkin Park reunite with new female singer Emily Armstrong

US rock band Linkin Park have introduced a brand new singer, Emily Armstrong, will be part of them for his or her new album and tour.

The group’s former lead singer, Chester Bennington, took his personal life in 2017.

Armstrong will be part of returning members Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix and Joe Hahn for the band’s forthcoming initiatives.

Armstrong will share vocals with Shinoda, whereas Colin Brittain can even be part of because the group’s new drummer.

The band introduced their new line-up forward of the launch of their forthcoming album From Zero and a brand new world tour.

Armstrong grew up in Los Angeles and is greatest often known as the singer in alt-rock band Useless Sara, which she co-founded with guitarist Siouxsie Medley in 2005.

In an interview with Billboard, Amstrong recalled the affect Linkin Park’s 2000 album Hybrid Idea had on her.

“I used to be in a band when it got here out,” she recalled. “One Step Nearer was the music for me, and I used to be identical to, ‘that’s what I wish to do. As a singer, I need to have the ability to scream’.

“That album was every part – I’ve listened to it a trillion occasions. I might skate to it. I might mosh to it.”

In an period dominated by solo artists, Linkin Park are probably the most profitable bands of the streaming age.

They’re the one band to function in Spotify’s high 10 most-streamed albums of all time, with their biggest hits assortment Papercuts attracting greater than 9m streams per day.

Linkin Park usually are not the primary band to nominate a brand new lead singer following the demise of a frontman – Alice in Chains and Chic have beforehand carried out the identical.

Most notably, Queen have often toured with singer Adam Lambert lately, following Freddie Mercury’s demise in 1991.

In the meantime, Brittain will substitute the band’s earlier drummer, Rob Bourdon.

Chatting with Billboard, Shinoda defined: “Rob had mentioned to us at some extent, I suppose it was a couple of years in the past now, that he needed to place a ways between himself and the band.

“And we understood that – it was already obvious. He was beginning to simply present up much less, be in much less contact, and I do know the followers seen it too.

“So for me, as a pal, that was unhappy, however on the identical time, I need him to do no matter makes him pleased, and clearly everyone needs him the very best.”

Brittain has beforehand labored with rock bands Papa Roach and All Time Low.

The band’s new world tour will go to Los Angeles, New York, Hamburg, Seoul and London this month, and Bogotá in November.

The tour will likely be their first run of dwell efficiency since Bennington’s demise in 2017, aged 41.

Their new album will likely be preceded by a single, titled The Vacancy Machine, the group’s first new music since Bennington’s demise.

The band carried out the music as a part of an hour-long live performance, broadcast on the band’s social platforms on Thursday, to formally launch their new line-up.